Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-07

playing In an uncompleted sewer near his
home, and was about 10 feet below the sur
face Of the ground. when large quantity
Of earth caved in on him, covering him and
leaving three feet Of soil above his head.
Passers-by extricated the poor little fellow
after he had been buried Is minutes.
At Chatfeld, Mimi, Mrs. Patrick
Shay, widow, became insane, broke furni.
ture, and tried to kill her brother ana his
children with ak and knife She was adj
judged insane. Her husband died in an in
ways feared she would be taken there, too,
and declared that no power on earth could
compel her to be taken to the asylum to be
killed, as she said her husband was. Mrs.
Shay is worth $4,000.
At Appleton, Wis, F. G. Lake sued
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad COM
pany for $4,000 for killing his wife. The
company took his deposition and it ap-
pears that he was not married to the
woman. TWAS also developed that he has
three alleged wives, and that he has served
two terms in state prisons. His attorney
discontinued the suit without finishing the
The Democrats of Iowa held their
State convention at Des Moines, nominating
Maj. J. F. Anderson for Governor, J. M.
Elder for Lieutenant Governor, Charles E.
Fogg for Judge of the Supreme Court,
W. Il. Sawyer for Superintendent Of
Public instruction. The first resolution of
the platform is an emphatic and cordial
endorsement of President Cleveland's
administration. The platform is strong
antl-monopoly and ant-prohibition.
William Beck, formerly of Phila-
delphia, is at Washington, D. c., asking the
government to search for his wife and
child, who were captured with himself, he
says, by Ogallallah Sioux at Deadwood
twelve years ago. He says he was sep
and that he had been prisoner with. the
Indians since, until recently rescued by
Canadian police.
Near Broken Bow, Neb., William
Johnson became involved in a quarrel with
his brother-in-law and demanded of hi
wife his revolver, which she had hidden
away from him. He wanted it to shoot his
brother-in-law. bis wife refused to give it
to him, whereupon he hit her across the pit
of the stomach with club and killed her.
He then fled and has not been arrested.
The Manitoba road has pushed it's
Montana extension with great vigor. Since
April l it has laid 412 miles of track from
Minot west. To Great Falls, from the end
of the track, is 1873 miles, and this will be
laid by October. The line is now within rs
miles of Fort A ssinaboine. The new line is
said to be opening up very fertile farming
country for settlers.
At Richland Center, Wis, while at
prayer meeting, with his wife, Augustus
Haskin's house was ransacked by burglars.
A pocketbook containing over $1,000 il
missing. Recently, a butcher was attacked
in his house and relieved of So, and a
butcher, while driving in the country, in
the day time, was dragged from his wagon
and robbed
Nine years ago M.1ngrebretson, wife,
son and daughter came to Nicollet county,
Mimi, from Norway. Soon after they came
the son became intoxicated and on his way
homo was so badly frozen that he died. A
year later the father became insane. This
week the mother and daughter were adj
judged insane and committed to the st.
Peter asylum.
Nicholas Burgard and wife were
working out in the field about three
miles north of Britt, Iowa, and put the
baby, seven menths old, under the wagon.
hitching their team behind-the little one
laid down and the team pulled the wagon
back the wheel passing over the baby's
neck, killing it instantly.
Henry Sherman, a farmer. near
Window, MIMI, was arranged before
Justice Keith, charged by his hired girl
with giving her a black eye, kicks, cuffs,
ETC. Sherman was held in $500 to appear
at the December term of court. He
promises to produce extenuating circum-
stances as his defense.
A cold-blooded murder was COM
mitted at Auburn, Iowa. Wade Upper
and DeNewt, after drinking considerable
liquor, quarreled. Upper secured a re-
volver and shot Newt, who died in twenty
minutes. Upper was jailed. Lynching is
talked of. Newt leaves a wife and two
children.
Company G, Eighth Wisconsin volun-
teers. will hold its first reunion in Eau
Claire, Wis, Oct. 10. This company was
1861. with "Old Abe" the famous war
eagle, carried him throughout the war. and
gave the Eighth the name of eagle regi-
ment.''
r. w. Thomas, of Oshkosh, Wis,
hostler with a wife and eight children, has
been left S100, 600, the fourth part of an
estate of deceased uncle in Wales. The
estate had been in litigation for some years,
but has finally been settled. Mr.. Thomas